Sunday, October 05, 2008

Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio

Even though I got up five posts here last month, I acknowledge that they were all about poker. The absolute truth about life is that the deadline for the book now looms over the world as I know it. On the positive side of the equation there has been a lot of progress in the past month or so. I am actually going to have two long sessions with Mike tomorrow and Tuesday to read him six complete chapters. Part of our process is to read Mike the final draft of each chapter to get his input and to pick up any missing pieces of the story. After we incorporate whatever we get from Mike this week, that will bring us to 13 complete, done, finished chapters. As soon as Mike returns from his next poker tournament in Niagara Falls, we will read the last 3 chapters to him and then we turn the beast over to the publisher and at some point begin the editing process with them.

My plan is to work a Bay Area trip into the interregnum between turning in the book and beginning the work with the editor. So, all things being equal and The Earthquake doesn't separate California, I hope to be in San Francisco and Sonoma for all or a major part of November. Bay area residents are duly given notice of my impending arrival.

1 comment:

If you've covered this in a previous post, I missed it. Why read the chapters to Mike? Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient for him to just read them himself? (He could presumably add notes/corrections/additions in the margins of the pages, or with a "comments" function in a word processor, or even just dictate his thoughts into a voice recorder.) Does he not know how to read?